Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1887-08-13

djeG a Christian. Have you any
doubt about what Joseph Henry is do
Ingp They were in discussion, all these
astronomers of earth, about what the
borealis was, and none of them
could guess. They know now; they
have been out there to see for tn III
selves.
What are departed Christian chem
lists doing9 Following out their own
science, following out and following
out forever. Since they died they have
solved ten thousand questions which
once puzzled the earthly laboratory.
They stand on the other side of the
thin wall Of electricity, the wall that
seems to divide the physical from the
spiritual world, the thin wall OF cleo
tricity, SO thin the wall that ever and
anon j. seems t, be almost broken
through-broken through from our
side by the telephone and %telegraphic
apparatus. broken through on the other
side by stranre influences which men
i'll their ignorance call ~spiritualist C
manifestations. All that matter clear
ed up
AGASsIZ
standing amid his student explorers
down in Brazil coming acrcss some
great novelty in the rocks, taking off
his hat and saying: gentleman, let us
pray; we must have divine illumina-
ton; we want wisdom from the
Creator to study these rocks; He made
them; let us pray"-Agassiz going
right on with his studies forever and
forever
But what are the men Of the law,
who in this world found their chief joy
in the legal professionalism are
they doing nowP Studying law in \
universe where everything is controlled
by law from flight of humming bird to
flight of world-law, not dry and hard
and drudging, but righteous and mag
n~iticent law, before which man and
chcrub and scraph and %archangel and
God himself bow. The chain of law
long enough to wind around the i'm
mensities and infinity and eternity.
Chain of law. What a place to study
law. where all the links OF the chain
are in the hand!
What are our departed Christian
friends who in tnls world had their JOY
in the healing art. doing nowP Busy
at their old business. No sickness in
Heaven, but plenty OF sickness on
earth, plenty Of wounds in the different
parts Of Gods dominion 10 be healed
and to be medicated. You cannot un-
derstand why that patient got well
after all the skillful doctors of New
York and Brooklyn had said he must
die. Perhaps A%btrcrombie touched him
Abercrombie, who, after many years'doc-
toring the bodies and the souls Of peo-
pie in Scotland went up TO God in 1874.
Pcrhrps Abercrompie touched ham.
l should not wonder if my old friend
DR.. John Brown, who died in Edin-
burgh-John Brown, the author of
.'Rab and His Friends, john Brown
who was as humble a Christian as he
was skillful a physician ano world-re-
nowped author-I should not wonder
il he had been back again and again to
see some of his
OLD PATIENTS.
Those who had their JOY in healing
the sickness and the woes Of earth,
J gone up to Heaven, are como forth
again Tor benignant medicament.
But what are our friends who found
their chief JOY in conversation and ia
sociality doing now? In brighter con
versation there and in grander social
ty.
What a place to visit in, where your
next door neighbors are kings and
queens, You yourselves kingly and
qneenly. If they want to know more
particularly about the first Paradise,
they have only to 60 over and ask
Adam. If they want to Know how the
sun and the moon halted. they have
only to 90 over and ask Joshua. Ii
they want TO know how the storm
pelted Sodom, they have only to gs
over and ask Lot. IL they want To
know how the Red Sea b lied when i,
was %cloven, they have only to 60 over
and ask Moses. If they want to know
the particulars about the Bethlehem ad.
vent, they have only to 90 over AND
ask the serenading angels who stood
that Christmas night in the balconies
of crystal. II they want to know more
Of the particulars of the crucitixion,
they have only to 60 over ard ask those
who were personal spectators while the
mountains crouched and the Heavens
got black in the face at the spectacle.
Ii they want to know more about the
sufferings of the
SCOTCH COYENANTERs,
they have only to 60 over and ask
Andrew Melville. If they want to
know more about the old time revivals,
they nave only to go over and ask
Whitefield, and Wesly, and Livingston,
and Fletcher, and Nettleton. and Fin.
ney. o! what a place to visit in.
If eternity were me minute shorter
it would not be long enough for such
sociality. Think of our friends who in
this world were ~passionotely fond OF
flowers turned into Paradise! Think
of our friends who were very fond OF
raising superb fruit turned into the
| orchard where each tree has twelve
kinds of fruit at once. and bearing the
fruit all the year round!